Dorcatherium chappuisi
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On record
Recorded, not inferred- Sits inside
- DorcatheriumPBDB
- Diet
- frugivore, grazerPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Life habit
- ground dwellingPBDB, for Tragulidae
- Motility
- actively mobilePBDB, for Osteichthyes
- Environment
- terrestrialPBDB, for Artiodactyla
Time the record covers
At least 2.1 million years on record.
The record covers at least 15.98 Mya to 13.82 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 23.04 Mya to 11.63 Mya.
11 occurrences of Dorcatherium chappuisi on record, most of them in the Miocene. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.
When
11 occurrences- Miocene100%
These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.
Found in
4 formations
- Maboko Formation7
- Lothidok Formation2
- Upper Koru Series Formation · Kericho Phonolites Group1
- Bakate Formation1
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The named rock units Dorcatherium chappuisi has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.
Dorcatherium chappuisi and its relatives
MioceneWhere Dorcatherium chappuisi and its relatives were recorded in the Miocene.
Found in the same rock
201 taxa- Dorcatherium pigotti8 sites
- Prodeinotherium hobleyi8 sites
- Climacoceras africanus5 sites
- Crocodylus5 sites
- Gomphotheriidae5 sites
- Rhinocerotidae5 sites
- Victoriapithecus macinnesi5 sites
- Afrohyrax championi4 sites
- Bovidae4 sites
- Chilotheridium pattersoni4 sites
- Creodonta4 sites
- Equatorius africanus4 sites
- Limicolaria4 sites
- Limnopithecus legetet4 sites
- Listriodon akatikubas4 sites
- Lopholistriodon moruoroti4 sites
- Pelusios4 sites
- Sivapithecus4 sites
- Trionyx4 sites
- Aceratherium3 sites
- Afrotragulus parvus3 sites
- Amphibia3 sites
- Dryopithecus3 sites
- Gazella3 sites
The Paleobiology Database records 11 sites for Dorcatherium chappuisi, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.
This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.
Entered from
9 references- New Higher Primate Fossils from the Middle Miocene Deposits at Majiwa and Kaloma, Western Kenya2
- The Miocene fossil beds of Maboko Island, Kenya: Geology, age, taphonomy, and palaeontology2
- New species of bushbaby from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- Age of the primate-bearing deposits on Maboko Island, Kenya1
- New primate fossils from the Middle Miocene of Maboko Island, Kenya1
- A new Miocene hominoid from Kenya1
- New higher primates from the early Miocene of Buluk, Kenya1
- Miocene mammals, stratigraphy and environment of Muruarot Hill, Kenya1
- New Potassium-Argon Age Determinations Relevant to the Miocene Fossil Mammal Sequence in East Africa1
Each of the 11 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.
Media and terms
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No picture of Dorcatherium chappuisi was found. Wikipedia, Wikidata and iDigBio were searched and had none.
Smithsonian Open Access did not answer, so this is what the others held rather than everything there is.
GBIF was asked, and what came back is not recorded: nothing, or a picture this site could not tie to Dorcatherium chappuisi, or no answer at all. This entry cannot say which.
No 3D scan of Dorcatherium chappuisi was found in Sketchfab.
Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.
This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.
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What may have been alongside itDorcatherium through timeFormations of the MioceneThe world it lived on
Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Arambourg 1933